New Mormon Challenge, The: Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement

Unlike most books on Mormonism, The New Mormon Challenge does not recycle previous material but offers freshly researched and well-documented rebuttals of Mormon claims to the best LDS scholarship. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) currently has over 11 million members and 56,000 full-time missionaries - more than any other single missionary-sending organization in the world. These missionaries convert over 310,000 people annually. Partly because Christians lack substantive resources with which they can counter Mormon claims, a staggering number of these converts - perhaps as many as 80 percent - come from Protestant backgrounds. Mormonism's rapidly growing numeric strength is well known. Less widely known is the fact that its members are also growing in academic respectability and are making 2002 Olympic Game efforts to defend and promote their faith in a scholarly manner. The Mormon apologetic is being significantly improved and promoted by professional scholars equipped with the finest educational backgrounds and scholarly tools. This book, written by a team of respected Christians scholars, is a response to the new challenge of Mormon apolgetics. It is intended to serve as a tool to help curb Mormon growth and help Christians who are confronted with the claims of Mormon apologists. Through biblical, historical, scientific, philosophical, and theological discussions, it will aid those sharing the gospel with Mormons and those investing Mormonism in their own.

Written by an international team of respected Christian scholars, this freshly researched rebuttal of Mormon truth will aid those sharing the gospel with Mormons and those investigating Mormonism on their own. It will help readers to accurately understand Mormonism through biblical, historical, scientific, philosophical, and theological discussions.

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Reviewed by Eug (Edgerton, WI), April 06, 2002

4 out of 5 stars ONLY because of the extremely annoying format of using endnotes rather than footnotes on the page. Some of the best material is in the notes. Aside from that, it is a 5 star book. It respectfully deals with the "real" issues of modern Mormon thought and theology. It is not simply an attack on a "straw-man" Mormonism that is outdated by 100 years, but a scholarly response to the very best of Mormon apologetics. 1 Peter 3:15 commands us to be ready always to give a reason for the hope that we have, and this book is a powerful tool for just that.

Reviewed by Scott (Boise, Idaho), February 23, 2002

This is the best book to date you will find written from an evangelical perspective on the Mormon church. The editors did a tremendous job getting some of the best evangelical scholars together to examine the LDS faith in light of the best evidence and challenge their LDS counterparts to come up with a reasonable defense.

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